Marshmallow Blaster Walmart

Letters from abuse, Roberto Martínez Guzmán

Title: Letters from the abuse

Author: Roberto Martínez Guzmán

Editorial: Desktop Publishing author

Year: 2010

Pages: 245

ISBN: 9781445771663

Roberto Martínez Guzmán sent me this book about three months ago and I was a very special Christmas gift and I want to thank you once again. Now, after reading three or four days, the only thing I regret is not reading it and enjoyed before. Although perhaps not enjoyed the best word.

Reading Letters from abuse has been intense, hard, shocking, cruel, obsessive, intimate, personal. Because that's the story that says Roberto Martínez Guzmán. A story in which he is only the editor of the letters of Monty, her partner, who for years was abused by her former partner when he was her boyfriend, her husband and even when it was her ex-husband.


The book consists of letters that, as a personal diary he wrote during the last two Montse years of abuse, between April 8, 2006 and April 28, 2008. The 256 cards are divided into ten chapters: The indifference, Divorce, Waiting for a role, as usual, in their hands, "Work = independence?, Pain and hope, pushed into hell, ready to die and to a centimeter death. In addition, these ten chapters are preceded by an introduction and an epilogue written closed by Roberto Martínez Guzmán himself. Along Montse accompany pages from his native Valencia to Foz Lugo, Galicia, Silos Cordoba, his return to Valencia and finally, his life, hell, the nightmare Lugo again.

Although the couple Montse, Quique, was when she met a drug addict, an alcoholic without a job or benefit, marginal someone with a past and a family uprooted just as she only saw in him Prince Charming to rescue him from his family, his loneliness, low self-esteem and its harsh reality.

However, although all around you, your friends, family, coworkers, Quique is one child, shy, quiet, polite, that's just the mask that goes when it leaves the street, because in the privacy of home is a monster abusive, violent person who does not hesitate in hitting, insulting, humiliating, raping Montse spy or so to cancel it and it can be controlled at will, to be his alone, to be its owner.

Something Quique quickly and easily get Montse forcing first to leave Valencia after Córdoba Silos and Galicia, isolation from family and friends and putting a few people who remain at their side of the hand, manipulating, lying, acting to make everyone believe it is the perfect husband and father, and thus lock Montse every day, because she suffers from agoraphobia and can not leave the street alone without being accompanied by Quique or Miriam, his first cousin, who occasionally glimpsed what was happening to Monty but without help at all at any time.

No one can help. Fear and anxiety paralyze you. No one can leave home for work or even to go shopping or take her daughter to school or park. Montse alone, contained, trapped in the inferno of blows, shouts, insults and tears. She feels humiliated, abandoned, forgotten, but also guilty for not knowing really see what it was Quique. Not being able to cash the divorce, to force him to leave home or leave her with her daughter and put on two In order to save from this hell in which they live.

this panorama so heartbreaking, the only escape from Montse are friends who met online, with those who chat and talk on the phone and, of course, his letters, the letters he wrote to late am, when the monster has been sleeping after the beatings, the insults, the screaming, rape, tears and blood, rage and helplessness. This monster that forbids such discussions, those calls and those letters. This monster that looks through the house and, when found, it destroys that no one knows how it really is.

know that those letters we are reading now are real, genuine, that all happened really impressed me much more than I expected. I thought it was going to be stronger, it would be able to endure, but many times I had to stop reading to give me not to mourn or cry, to remove the lump that had formed in my throat and my stomach not to vomit.

However, although sometimes the harshness of this story has left me very wrong body, I recommend this reading to everyone, men and women, I think everyone should read this book to find out how feel, what they think and what living women who are battered by their partners. Because after reading this book the stories of abuse, unfortunately, we see every day in the media, I seem cold, aloof, distant. Insufficient to understand and, above all, to raise awareness against this social scourge that we must fight all: victims, offenders and do not forget, also others, which many times we become silent witnesses to see, hear and remain silent or do not even want to see, looking the other way and that, ultimately, become accomplices of the perpetrator.

think

Montse has been very courageous to publish all these letters and her boyfriend, Roberto Martinez Guzman, has also been very brave to share with Montse his heartbreaking past. However, I have to put two drawbacks to this story. First, I would love to know what happened finally with Quique, if it was denounced, arrested and convicted, if he committed suicide or whether, instead, found a new victim that destroy life. And second, misspellings, commas and misplaced accents. I fully understand that letters of Montserrat, the original, are poorly written at that time the spelling was not important, but on the contrary, I have missed work correction and editing by Roberto Martínez Guzmán itself. Still, I hope these letters from the abuse reach many people for no woman would never be forced to write something similar.